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A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., & Linge, N. (2016). A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches. In 2016 18th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (730-735). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2016.7423609

Monitoring and controlling microclimate in a greenhouse becomes one of the research hotspots in the field of agrometeorology, where the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) recently attracts more attentions due to its features of self-adapti... Read More about A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches.

Valuable experimental model of contraction pneumatic muscle actuator (2016)
Book Chapter
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2016). Valuable experimental model of contraction pneumatic muscle actuator. In 2016 21st International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR) (744-749). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MMAR.2016.7575229

Modelling of pneumatic muscle actuators “PMA” is one of the valued challenges in soft robotic researches, which is still under modification for the McKibben artificial muscle. Accurate force, length and position models allow for the wide use of make... Read More about Valuable experimental model of contraction pneumatic muscle actuator.

Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks (2016)
Book Chapter
Light, B. (2016). Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks. In R. Lind (Ed.), Race and gender in electronic media : challenges and opportunities (231-246). London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315636801

Since the release of the Grindr app in 2009, interest in digitally mediated public sexual cultures concerning men who have sex with men has increased. Yet, digital mediation of such public sexual cultures through apps had begun more than a decade bef... Read More about Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks.

Remains to be Un/Seen : envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2016)
Book Chapter
Blair, P. (2016). Remains to be Un/Seen : envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light. In E. Peeren, H. Stuit, & A. Van Weyenberg (Eds.), Peripheral visions in the globalizing present : space, mobility, aesthetics (201-221). Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004323056_013

Sustainable urban regeneration and large estate projects international market - driven regeneration and sustainability (2016)
Book Chapter
international market - driven regeneration and sustainability. In M. Farid Khamis, A. Hamad, Y. Bahei El Din, & A. M.Rashed (Eds.), Sustainable Mega Project. Chance - Change - Challenge (128-133). Cairo: Elain Publishing House

In Europe, urban regeneration still represents the principal mode in which urban transformation and development happen. Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) paradigm is based on the holistic concept of sustainability, stemming from the three pillars o... Read More about Sustainable urban regeneration and large estate projects international market - driven regeneration and sustainability.

ProtectED : valuing the safety, security & wellbeing of university students (2016)
Book Chapter
Davey, C., Wootton, A. B., & Marselle, M. (2016). ProtectED : valuing the safety, security & wellbeing of university students. In International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 8. Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH

The security of further education (FE) colleges and higher education (HE) universities and the students that attend them, is a significant issue in the UK. University students are at relatively high risk of victimisation due to their age, circumstanc... Read More about ProtectED : valuing the safety, security & wellbeing of university students.

"Mind Britain's business": fascist splinter groups, British officers and resistance to war against Germany, 1937-1941 (2016)
Book Chapter
Searle, D. (2016). "Mind Britain's business": fascist splinter groups, British officers and resistance to war against Germany, 1937-1941. In G. Gahlen, D. Segesser, & C. Winkel (Eds.), Geheime Netwerke im Militär 1700-1945 (184-203). Paderborn: Schoeningh

In considering the history of 'secret military networks', the activities of radical right-wing splinter groups in Britain in the period 1937-41 presents an opportunity to explore questions which might at first appear more relevant to previous centuri... Read More about "Mind Britain's business": fascist splinter groups, British officers and resistance to war against Germany, 1937-1941.

A ‘perfect storm’ : institutional reform in Italy after the 2013 national elections (2016)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2016). A ‘perfect storm’ : institutional reform in Italy after the 2013 national elections. In J. Edelmann (Ed.), Crisis as a Permanent Condition? The Italian Political System between Transition and Reform Resistance (79-98). Germany: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845257044-79

This chapter analyses the impact of the 2013 elections on the institutional reform debate in Italian politics in the context of a thirty year failure to secure what are regarded as essential reforms. The first part of the chapter summarises this long... Read More about A ‘perfect storm’ : institutional reform in Italy after the 2013 national elections.